蜀南竹王国中的竹海世界

The Massive World of Bamboo Forest in Southern Sichuan:A Journey of Culture and History

"万里长江第一城"宜宾市,是我国最大的丛生竹、散生竹、混生竹生长基地,世界最大的竹种基因库和"全国最大的天然竹林公园"。从初见竹海印象到深入竹海腹地乡村,我们竹文化价值研究项目组,来到蜀南竹王国中的竹海世界实地调研,走访了长宁县竹海镇农林村、集贤村、楠木村和新农村竹文化建设示范村永江村,以及翠屏区李庄镇高桥竹村,写下"文化纪行六篇"。蜀南竹王国中的竹海世界,千百年来,人类与竹海共生,其取之不尽的文化宝藏,对于宜宾竹产业发展、我国长江经济带和成渝"双城"经济区国家战略实施,具有无可替代的重要价值。

Yibin is the world’s largest gene pool of bamboo species and the biggest habitatfor sympodium,monopodial and mixed bamboo in China,while the Zhuhai(bamboo sea)is known as the biggest natural bamboo forest parkin the country.The six articles in this column are interconnected but can also be read separately.We have visited the villages of Nonglin,Jixian,Nanmu,Yongjiang(a model village of bamboo culture development in the new socialist countryside)and Gaoqiao,all located in the interior of the Zhuhai,to present you our first impression as well as in-depth insight on the area.With firsthand experience in how various intangible culturalheritages,such as bamboo paper,bamboo wine,bamboo carving and weaving,are preserved and what efforts are behind them,we are morethan privileged to complete The Origin of Bamboo Culture.We also saw the historical splendor of Yibin as an important city along the South Silk Road.We walked into the Longyin Temple embraced by bamboos to feel the philosophical view of life formed by people who have livedin there for generations,which integrates heaven,earth,humans and bamboos,and feel the Zen in their bamboo culture infused with theconception of nature in religious culture.During our trip to Lizhuang,a national historical and cultural town,we listened to the stories of howculture was interwoven into the village history to bring hopes in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and to lay the foundationof the People’s Republic of China,and we were deeply awed by the red mark left in the revolutionary base.In the Zhuhai,people have livedwith bamboos for thousands of years,and the bamboos are now of irreplaceable value for Yibin’s bamboo industrial development and thenational strategies of building the Yangtze River Economic Belt as well as the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone.